Brenda Hafera is the director of international and continuing education programs at The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) where she oversees the TFAS Public Policy Fellowship, Curriculum of Liberty Seminars and the TFAS academic program in Hong Kong. Prior to joining TFAS, Hafera worked as assistant director of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University, where she organized programs focused on citizenship, statesmanship and freedom.

Brenda holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science, a Bachelor of Science in finance and a master’s in political science from Villanova University. She has written for the Claremont Review of Books, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Constituting America and was a 2017 Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute.